Llantwit Major / Llanilltud Fawr / Llaniltud Fawr
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view of font - southeast side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2018 by Colin Smith
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view of font in context - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2018 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Círculo Románico, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph in Círculo Románico [www.circuloromanico.com/index.php?menu_id=9&jera_id=1594&page_id=1260] [accessed 27 November 2011]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: 1920s? B&W postcard
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190701064_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2018 by Colin Smith
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design element - patterns - scalloped - imbrication
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2018 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2018 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 July 2019)
view of font in context - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 July 2019)
view of font and cover in context - east side
Scene Description: the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/544791] [accessed 27 November 2011]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: with the font at the far end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Círculo Románico, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph in Círculo Románico [www.circuloromanico.com/index.php?menu_id=9&jera_id=1594&page_id=1260] [accessed 27 November 2011]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Orrin, 1988
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Orrin (1988)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01025LLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: Newman (1995) gives Kenfig (Maudlam) and St. Donats as cognates
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Illtyd
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Illtyd [aka Illtud]
Church Notes: located at the site of the oldest college in the UK, Cor Tewdws, founded ca. 395 in honour of emperor Theodosius I; refounded by St. Illtud ca. 508; current church built late-11thC; modified 13th and 15thC
Church Address: Church Ln, Llantwit Major CF61 1SG, UK -- Tel.: +44 1446 792439
Site Location: Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B4265-B4270 crossroads, 7-8 km SW of Cowbridge, 15 km W of Barryin S Glamorgan
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Llandaff
Historical Region: South Glamorgan
Additional Comments: recycled font? is the base a former basin? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Bond (1908) describes the ornamentation pattern as "imbrications or shingle". Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period decorated with "four courses of scales". In Orrin (1988): "The font, in the north-west corner of the nave, is of Sutton stone and a circular bowl of the Norman period accoprding to Francis Bond (1908) with overlapping scallops known as 'scale pattren'. It has a moulding at the rim and another at the base of the bowl which rests on a circular stem and a similar base chamfered out and then inclined towards the square base." Described in Newman (1995) as a "circular bowl covered with a bold scale pattern" and dates it to the 12th century. In Rees (2003) as Norman. Noted in Thurlby (2006) as a baptismal font "decorated with imbrication (fish-scale pattern)". Thurlby (ibid.) further notes that the appearence of the imbrication motif on fonts "speaks clearly of the iconographic connection between death and resurrection and their simulation in Baptism". Wooden font cover, round and flat, with metal decoration; date unknown, but probably 19th century. [NB: the base of this font looks suspiciously like a basin itself and it looks very worn; is it an old basin that has been used to prop up the fancier basin? The whole is raised on a quadrangular plinth. The latter shows signs of repairs, with at least one insert replacement in the upper basin side, damage consistant with the removal of old cover staples].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Círculo Románico [www.circuloromanico.com] and to Colin Smith for their photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 466073 5695322
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.4081, -3.4878
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 24′ 29.16″ N, 3° 29′ 16.08″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern (19th-century?)
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 155
- Newman, John, Glamorgan (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan), London: Penguin Books; University of Wales Press, 1995, p. 44, 407
- Orrin, Geoffrey R., Medieval Churches of the Vale of Glamorgan, Cowbridge: D. Brown & Sons, 1988, p. 87, 248 and ill. on p. 88
- Rees, Elizabeth, An essential guide to Celtic sites and their saints, London; New York: Burns & Oates, 2003, p. 118
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 175
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 18, 85